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Who's Looking Out For the Interests of Freight Brokers?

DAT Solutions

Editor’s note: This is a guest blog post by Tom Malloy, director of sales and membership for the Transportation Intermediaries Association. There's just one organization that exclusively represents the third-party logistics industry: the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA). Who looks out for their interests?

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Getting the Education and Experience to Land a Job in Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

List all classes or seminars you’ve taken in the subject area as well as any paid or unpaid jobs. Check online reviews, college rankings as published in reputable magazines, and official institution websites to gain information about fees, the number of students, courses offered, and available specialties.

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Transportation Sales: Finding Right Thinking Guys

The Logistics of Logistics

One of the keys to being successful in transportation sales is finding the right kind of customers. Of course with cold calling you will mostly get voice mails and people who don’t want to hear from you. Most transportation companies don’t do a great job on this step. In other words, these guys get it. Get very detailed.

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Transportation Sales: Finding Right Thinking Guys

The Logistics of Logistics

One of the keys to being successful in transportation sales is finding the right kind of customers. Of course with cold calling you will mostly get voice mails and people who don’t want to hear from you. Most transportation companies don’t do a great job on this step. In other words, these guys get it. Get very detailed.

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Transportation Sales: Finding Right Thinking Guys

The Logistics of Logistics

One of the keys to being successful in transportation sales is finding the right kind of customers. Of course with cold calling you will mostly get voice mails and people who don’t want to hear from you. Most transportation companies don’t do a great job on this step. In other words, these guys get it. Get very detailed.

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Top Ten Tips to Boost Supply Chain Performance to Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’ll also be providing some step by step guides and tools on these at our Free Seminars Series in February and March, but more on that later. Transport Service Selection. Tell tale signs of a network problem will be increasing inventory, warehousing and transport costs, stock outs and rising customer complaints. Are there more?

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

Today it operates in 67 countries with 143,000 employees and has 76 business units on six platforms that cover animal feed, food production, energy and transportation, financial services and pharmaceuticals. It is of course discouraging when I make promises and they can’t be realised. It’s not yet part of the business culture it seems.

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